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The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations
By Paul Collins
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By Paul Collins
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A nuanced reassessment of the ancient Fertile Crescent civilization that complicates received wisdom by exploring the ever-present politics of archaeology and laying claim to the past.
The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, lit...